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Membership sites are an awesome way to create an ongoing source of income. The biggest hurdles that most people, including me, have found though are: Most of the WordPress plugins are really expensive They have a steep learning curve with a lot of features that I would never use They take over your site and […]

This article is really for: WordPress theme and/or plugin developers, or Marketers that outsource theme/plugin development, or PHP programmers, or Programmers that can pretty much code in any language. If you don’t fit any of the above, you can stop reading now as you’re not really in a position to profit by licensing and selling […]

Have you ever come across one of those sites that have daily lists of proxy IP addresses? They have to have daily lists because free proxies tend to have a very limited shelf life, getting burned out very quickly. If you’re looking for a quick way to check which proxies are still working before someone […]

I recently had the task of updating a wordpress site to show the latest tour dates for artists on http://feelthebeatz.com. The site had over 100 posts on different DJs so I needed an automated way of showing updated tour dates as a widget in the right hand column. Songkick has an API that provides tour […]

Just recorded an interview with Mark Samms from IncomeSociety.com. Mark covers a lot of areas re my business journey, programming, internet marketing, personal development – have a listen when you have a spare 40 minutes – you should be able to get something out of it for your own journey. Cheers, John

Sometimes things can get rough, with what feels like life throwing you curve ball after curve ball. If you’re ever feeling like this, check out this quote which can help you rise above the crap. “PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. […]

If you have an idea for some software and want to quickly build it without the hassle of full blown software development, then you should consider using the AutoIT framework. As a commercial programmer, sometime I just want to create some software very quickly, and I have used AutoIT to just get the job done. […]

If you’ve read any of my other articles or watched some of my videos about website traffic strategies, you will realize that I really detest “advice” from so-called gurus, that is not backed up by sound empirical evidence. Fortunately seoeffect.com organized an experiment to see if using Google +1 had any effect on website rankings. […]